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New Maladies of the Soul

by Julia Kristeva

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Psychoanalysis and the changing shape of inner life

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Psychoanalysis and the changing shape of inner life

Julia Kristeva examines psychoanalysis against a backdrop of political upheaval, mass media, and changing family and sexual norms. Framed around the figure of a “new” patient, the book asks whether the inner psychic space traditionally associated with the self is under pressure in contemporary Western life. Its subject is not a clinical manual but a psychoanalytic inquiry into how broad social transformations may register in individual symptoms and experience. The revised edition places questions of subjectivity, culture, and therapy in direct conversation.

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  • Readers interested in psychoanalytic thought and psychotherapy
  • Students of psychology, cultural theory, or contemporary social change
  • Those exploring Julia Kristeva’s work on subjectivity

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PsychoanalysisSubjectivityPsychic lifeMass media and cultureFamily and sexual norms

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Book overview

These days, who still has a soul? asks Julia Kristeva in her psychoanalytic exploration, New Maladies of the Soul. Hailed by Peter Brooks in the New York Times as "a critic of great psychoanalytic insight," Kristeva reveals to readers a new kind of patient, symptomatic of an age of political upheaval, mass-mediated culture, and the dramatic overhaul of familial and sexual mores. The book poses a troubling question about the human subject in the West today: Is the psychic space that we have traditionally known disappearing?
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